Kernel-7.2 Report

Kernel-7.2 is released. The build went swimmingly, as was expected.

However, I was surprised by the lack of new options presented.
Doing "make oldconfig" revealed only a single new feature: Cache
Aware Scheduling.  But that is supposedly a biggie:

<https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Scheduler>

Anyway, after 10 minutes of heavy, back-breaking, and sweaty labor,
I was running my system on kernel 7.2.

Here is the obligatory security (or lack thereof) check:

[~]# grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/*
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/gather_data_sampling:Not affected
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/ghostwrite:Not affected
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/indirect_target_selection:Not affected
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/itlb_multihit:Processor vulnerable
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/l1tf:Mitigation: PTE Inversion
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds:Vulnerable; SMT vulnerable
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown:Vulnerable
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mmio_stale_data:Not affected
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/old_microcode:Vulnerable
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/reg_file_data_sampling:Not affected
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/retbleed:Not affected
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_rstack_overflow:Not affected
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass:Vulnerable
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Vulnerable: __user pointer sanitization and user
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Vulnerable; STIBP: disabled; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not af
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/srbds:Vulnerable: No microcode
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsa:Not affected
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort:Not affected
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/vmscape:Vulnerable

Holy holy!  I am totally exposed!  I am naked with my pants down!
Those FSB agents that hide in my closet are gonna have a field day.